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CAN OPENER.

No. 375,451. Patented Dec. 27, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAROINE O. LILLY, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'IO WILLIAM HENRY ELWOOD AND FRANK ELVVOOD, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

CAN-OPENER.

QPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,451, dated December 2'7. 1887.

Application filed November 5,1887. Serial No. 254,440. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAROINE O. LILLY, a resident of the city of Decatur, county of Macon, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Can- Openers, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my device in position on a can. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same detached from the can and inverted, and Fig. 3 represents the opener in side elevation and on a reducedscale.

The handle a has points 0 projecting from its under surface, and also has a bearing, 1), for shaft h between the points. Attached to shafth below the handle is disk 6, provided with cutter g and peripheral spur or projectionf. On the under surface of the handle, adjacent to a point, 0, is a stop-block, d, in the path of the rotation of the spurf.

The deviceis operated as follows: The points 0 are forced into the can on opposite sides of the desired opening until the cutter y also penetrates the tin, when handle a is grasped by one hand and the disk with the cutter rotated by the other hand through handle 'i and shaft h. The stop 61 prevents a complete rotation of thecutter, and so leaves a small uncut strip that connects the otherwise detached portion with the body of the can. The

object of this provision is to prevent the cut portion from falling into the can, as it probably would it completely detached, and to furnish a hinge on which the can may be opened and closed.

The connection of the handle a with the can through points 0 c is very firm when made, and is ,very easily made. The form of the can has no effect on the operation of the device, and the opening may be made at any desired point with perfect accuracy. The cutter describes a perfect circle and turns the tin down so smoothly that danger of cutting the hands thereon is completely averted.

Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In can-openers, in combination, the handle with the downward-projecting points, the shaft adapted to rotate in a bearing in the handle, the disk on the shaft between the points of thehandle, and the cutter in the under side of the disk, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In can openers, in combination, the han die (1, having points 0 c and stop-block d, shaft h, having handle i, and disk e, having cutter g and spurf, as and for the purpose set forth.

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mark Attest:

L. P. GRAHAM, J. N. BILLs. 

